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BORDER ON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does border on mean?
• BORDER ON (verb)
The verb BORDER ON has 1 sense:
1. come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
Familiarity information: BORDER ON used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
approach; border on
Context example:
His playing approaches that of Horowitz
Hypernyms (to "border on" is one way to...):
approximate; come close (be close or similar)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "border on"):
converge (approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples
If you border on becoming strident, your efforts may backfire.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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